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Award-winning series Revolution examined sweeping changes in 1980s New Zealand society. This second episode argues that in its first term in office, the Labour Government promoted neoliberal reform via illusory ideas of consensus and fairness, while PM David Lange mined goodwill from its indie anti-nuclear policy (famously in an Oxford Union debate, see third clip). The interviews include key figures in politics, the public service and business: an age of easy lending and yuppie excess is recalled, while those in rural areas recount the downside of job losses.
It is now 13 years since Revolution was made for Television New Zealand and there has been no equivalent documentary of recent political history on our screens since as far as I can ascertain. The ...
[From the introduction to the book accompanying the TV series, published by Hodder Moa Beckett, 1996]
Revolution is a journalist's assembly of observations about the transformation of New ...
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Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
The first episode in the Revolution series
Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
The third episode in the Revolution series
Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
The final episode in the Revolution series
Television, 1988 (Excerpts)
A series satirising NZ politics in the 1980s via puppet caricature
Television, 2004 (Full Length)
A documentary on Marilyn Waring, then a controversial MP
Television, 1976 (Full Length)
Muldoon’s opines on nuclear matters in this infamous interview
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